actual/actual

actual/actual definition - finance
A method of calculating the accrued interest that is earned on a bond. The actual number of days in each month and the actual number of days in the year are used to calculate the interest payments.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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